Birthday Amirul Part 2

Ok, ni updates on Amirul's birthday party.

Atas permintaan, I baked a 10" chocolate cake for Amirul's birthday. Filling dia cam biasa, crushed oreos with whipping cream. Bila dah siap cake tu & dah salut ngan chocolate ganache, Amirul minta buat flower atas cake, sebab dia kata birthday cake ni nak share ngan mama, untuk celebrate birthday mama sekali.

Tapi sebab mama dia dah penat buat kek tu, and ada sikit lagi balance chocolate ganache tadi, whipped je la untuk buat design sikit-sikit kat atas, pastu letak smarties.

 

Raya 2010

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir dan Batin.

Gambar-gambar  kat bawah nih kitorang ambil pagi2 raya:

Baju raya Amirul dan Faiz tu Shas jahit sendiri, sampin pun jahit sendiri gak. Ni first time buat baju untuk diorang berdua. Selalunya, jahit seluar panjang jer untuk diorang untuk pakai kat rumah. Tapi, satu hari Amirul tanya bila mama dia nak jahit baju pulak. Tu yang beria nak jahit baju melayu untuk diorang nih.

So, ambil la baju lama diorang, study camne nak jahit. Search jugak kat internet untuk cari tutorial for help, last-last jumpa tutorial from my.crazyartzone.com untuk jahit baju kurung teluk belanga dan cara nak buat lubang leher untuk baju tu. Tak banyak beza sebenarnya baju kurung dengan baju melayu, tapi kena tukar sikit-sikit la cara menjahit, and kena tambah poket kat depan. I found the tutorial given to be very helpful, especially cara nak buat lubang leher. Thanks a lot Maya for sharing the tutorial.

Amirul dan Faiz suka sangat pakai baju tu, diorang pakai sampai malam dengan sampin sekali, tak bukak2 sampailah kitorang balik rumah lepas satu hari beraya.

Once again, selamat hari raya aidilfitri to all, maaf zahir dan batin.

Double chocolate mint cookies

I've been wanting to try out this recipe for so long, double chocolate mint cookies shared by Gina of Kitchen Capers. Here's the source of the recipe: mycakedecoclub forum.

I've pasted the recipe shared by Gina, as follows:

Ingredients:
115 g salted butter
180 g self raising flour
1 tbsp cocoa powder
80 g castor sugar
50 g light brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tube of Polo Mints
1 cup of chocolate chips


Methods:
1. Crush Polo mints in a bag, set aside
2. Cream butter, sugar in a mixer till creamy.
3. Add egg to beat till well mixed.
4. Turn off mixer and fold in flour, cocoa powder, chocolate chips and crushed mint.
5. Lined a baking tray with baking paper.
6. Use a piped bag to squeeze out tiny spots on the paper.
7. Bake in preheated oven 180 for 15 mins.
8. Remove and cool completely on wire rack.

I've taken some pictures of the cookies, but it doesn't look as nice as the one baked by Gina.

But the kids loved them anyway (since the get to "help-out" in making the cookies).

Thanks Gina for sharing the recipe. The cookies were yummy, but found it to be slightly on the sweet side, maybe because of the type of chocolate chips that I used. Next time, will reduce the sugar, add a little bit more butter and double the amount of Polo mints.

   

Birthday Amirul Part 1

Waktu birthday Amirul hari tu, dia minta mama dia masak kek coklat, sekejap nak yang ada gambar ben 10, sekejap nak yang macam treasure chest, sekejap lagi nak yang ada smarties. Tapi mama dia tak bake pon kek tu, sebab barang2 basic, eg tepung kek, coklat, whipping cream etc semua dah takde. Kalau nak bake jugak kena gi beli dulu kat kedai.

So, sebab tak bake birthday cake untuk Amirul, we have decided to just buy one for him first. Amirul pilih sendiri kek dia, sebab waktu birthday Faiz hari tu, Faiz dapat pilih kek sendiri.

Ni gambar2 waktu Birthday Amirul.

Disebabkan selalunya bila celebrate birthday anak2, mesti buat birthday party, Amirul dah tanya dah, "bila semua orang nak datang tengok abang tiup lilin ni?" Nanti mama buat birthday party untuk Amirul ek.

Happy birthday Amirul!!

Birthday Faiz

Lama dah tak update blog nih, kek pon dah lama sangat tak bake. Amirul dan Faiz selalu tanya bila mama dia nak buat kek.

Untuk birthday Faiz hari tu, beli jer kek sebab tak larat nak bake.

The first cake beli kat KLCC, beli yang kecik jer sebab kitorang berempat jer yang makan. Faiz pilih sendiri birthday cake nih, disebabkan Faiz suka sangat strawberry and chocolate, kek yang dia pilih kena ada both strawberry and chocolate. 

For his birthday party, beli cheesecake kat secret recipe.

Happy birthday Faiz!!

Chocolate cakes weekend

Apart from the 2 chocolate cakes that I baked last week, I also baked a few more chocolate cakes:

1. a stacked cake for my anniversary, my sister-in-law's anniversary and my father-in-law's birthday;
2. a 6 inch chocolate cake for our tea time treat; and 
3. another 6 inch cake to bring to my office. 

All in all, I actually baked 6 cakes (all chocolate!!) last weekend. I even told my husband that the next cake that I'm gonna bake won't be a chocolate cake (hopefully - my kids loves chocolate cake though).

This was my very first stacked cake - chocolate cake, decorated with white chocolate:

And this was the picture of our 6 inch tea time cake:

I didn't take any picture of the other 6 inch cake that I brought to my office. It's the same chocolate cake, with cookies and cream filling and chocolate ganache icing.